The Most God Damned Arrogant/Ignorant People You Have Ever Know

[threemae]

I invite everyone that has ever dealt with a seemingly or otherwise intelligent person in real life who has been so much like a brick wall that you could not stand it to post the ancedote.

My Ancedote Follows:

I went to a summer program at the University of Northern Colorado and had a creationist roomate. My other roomate and I would stay up until 2:00 AM debating creationism with him. Although I normally just respect people's opinons on something unless in a public forum like this one, he would rattle off all of these utterly proposterous claims such as, "The single scientist who discovered all of the caveman admitted that he lied and made up all of his research. There are ways to make bone in a laboratory and all of the skeletons were man made," in a desperate, half crying tone. Needless to say, I never went back to SEP at UNC, primarily because they let that fucking moron in after I spent four god-damned hours thinking of good answers to all of the written answer questions under the impression that I might have trouble gaining admission.

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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

[MarkSerlin]

The worst one I ever met I worked for. A born again Christian and part time preacher in his church, Mr. Piper had once been an executive in Airborne Express and retired. (I worked for airborne for a time under the subcontractors in the state of Florida.) He decided to subcontract, so he formed his own company and used his buddies in the executive offices to land him sweet contracts and grew pretty big in Georgia, where he lives. He then expanded down into my area and beat out my good subcontractor, who treated us well and gave us good pay and benefits and stood up for us employees. In a 'secret' bid, Piper somehow managed to find out what my employers bid was and underbid him by ONE CENT per package rate. (Talk about rigged.)

This guy, for being a Christian and a Preacher, turned out to be the nastiest person I have ever worked for. He brought down his own managers, cut our pay, disposed of our benefits, offered us a medical insurance plan that was ridiculously high and no one would take. (He had to pay part of any such plan. By making sure the plan was expensive and covered little, he guaranteed few if any would take it. Me and another employee even found out that he could get a better plan at a great price by combining us with his many employees in Georgia, but he refused to.) His managers were mainly of the type to run employees into the ground and fire them if they could not keep up. His first manager was a bipolar depressive who went deliberately off of his medication and went a bit nuts. To hide the fact that we did not have sufficient trucks to handle the area, he marked in packages as delivered that he had not delivered that day, then snuck in early in the morning and actually dropped them off.

If we damaged a van, the repairs came out of our pay. We were salary and worked 45 hours a week. Later, to save him money, he redid our contract, so that we worked longer hours for the same pay. If we did not sign the new contracts we were fired. He encouraged his managers to teach us how to lie on our manifests to make it look like we were doing well when we were not, which eventually snowballed and caught up with him and us. He blamed us for lying on our manifests. Since we drove crappie ford vans, the wear and tear on those cheap things got expensive and we were ranted at for deliberately trying to ruin the trucks because he had to pay for repairs. When we slowed down to save wear and tear, we were ranted at for being lazy and not doing our jobs. I even had a man fresh from the Marines drive with us and hire on, only to quit after a week, pointing out that we needed more drivers and he was not willing to recklessly careen about the city at dangerous speeds to get the job done. He promised us bonuses that we never got. One man decided to resign, but stayed with us until after Christmas because that was when things were worst. Afterwards we were given out Christmas bonuses (about $75 per driver and $100 for management team) but this guy did not get his. The owner told him that he did not give bonuses to quitters even though the guy had been nice enough to remain to help us through the rough season. Then he stated that he had broken up the man's bonus and given it to us drivers and if he wanted it, to talk us into giving it to him out of our checks. He always found something to bitch at the drivers about and almost never praised them. Our jobs were threatened frequently and we were forbidden to even talk about unionizing. As our loads became heavier, we needed more drivers and routes but he made us run harder until we failed and then we were accused of being lazy, were fired or quit. Anytime the Company inquired about why we were having problems, he blamed us. (He pulled me off of one route I had for years and put me on probation, saying I was lazy and not doing well. Then he poked me on a new route, griped because it took me three days to learn it and get up to speed and put another driver on my old route. Two months later, without saying a thing to me, he put three part time drivers on my old route. It could not be serviced by one full timer after all but he never admitted that he had been wrong in punishing me. Later, his manager trimmed part of his adjoining route and gave it to me, which overloaded me and I was chastised again. Piper stated that the previous driver had done my new route easily but it was taking me too long. He ignored the fact that the previous driver had not had the hard to get areas added on that his manager had given me. We lost more people when he had the area than with any other subcontractor. Including myself. (2 years after I left, I was cheered to find that he had given up the area and pulled out. Probably pressured by Airborne to do so.)

Some good Christian, huh?

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Mark
"Think of it as Evolution in action."

[yosemite]

It seems this topic is taking a religious context, so I will add my bit:

I was at a party once, and was chatting with these two guys I did not know. I forget how it came up, (we were talking about something on the news, I think) and I (foolishly) mentioned that I was Christian. I remember casually saying something like "I don't really believe in pesterning people about my beliefs, live and let live - yadda yadda yadda." I think I carefully established my intent not to get into some serious debate, and I certainly wasn't "judging" anyone.

Because I was stupid enough to let these guys know I was religious, I was subjected to about a half an hour of "preaching" from these two guys. They told me how deluded I was, explaining how God could not exist, giving me this whole anti-Christian spiel. All the time, my jaw was dropped open. I could hardly get a word in. I was thinking "And this is what I get for casually mentioning my religion? Even though I made it clear I wasn't really into arguing or preaching?"

I finally was able to get a word in, and these guys why they cared what I believed in. They said "because they hated seeing people deluded." Sigh. I was just so dumbfounded by their rudeness.

I really should have just left as soon as they started in with their preaching session. Or, better yet, asked them what made them any different from the self-righteous Christians who also would corner unsuspecting people and hammer away at them with their dogma. Really bloody amazingly arrogant and hypocritical, if you ask me.

[bj0rn]

really happened:
its a keyhole you idiot, why the bloody hell did you think i gave you that key for?

[GuanoLad]

???????

More info, please. One liners don't make a hell of a lot of sense without a preamble and a conclusion.

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[Coldfire]

I think bj0rn is trying to explain that he IS the example ;)


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Coldfire
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"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)

[pldennison]

My mother's boyfriend. He has the misfortune of being both simpleminded and pedantic. Makes you want to put your knuckles right in his teeth.

My aquaintance,formerly friend is arrogant all right. She tells me she has more faith in God than I do,she's spiritually uplifting,she would feed a homeless person,She would donate money she found on the street to God.Everyone tells her how beautiful she is,etc.

[Rousseau]

I once met this guy who posted all these messages that made absolutely no sense. He used no capitilization or punctuation, and he seemed sometimes to be making up words or phrases. So when people tried to tell him this, he got all offended and started posting these rebuttles that made even less sense. So people tried to tell him again. And this circle went on for a while, until people just got sick of trying to correct him, and they just yelled at him. So he started whining that people were just yelling at him instead of trying to correct him.

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The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.

(Watch out, chaps, wazzock alert...

"rebuttal", Rousseau, "rebuttal". If you're going to be a pedantic pratt, at least try to do it properly...)

"The most God damned arrogant/ignorant people I have ever know" [sic] - that wd be American college girls, I dare say

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Man erith, woman morpeth

Why do I get the idea that pl's mum's boyfriend is a christian? ;)

[pldennison]

I don't know what he is. I doubt that he's particularly religious. I just know he's a moron.

[counterattackii]

Im tired of people making fun of Christians, and Catholics in general. I am Polish National Catholic- I get ridculed for being both Polish and Catholic. If you dont believe the same thing I do, fine. I dont care! Its your choice but stop generalizing ME. It would make the world a whole lot easier if people would stop judging and generalizing everybody else. Thanks for ruining my day.

[Max Torque]

I'm a general, and I greatly resent the negative connotation given to the word "generalize". For how long are we to put up with these things!

sheesh....

[neuro-trash grrrl]

Well, you're not alone, Max. How many majors are sick and tired of hearing about all these "major catastrophes"? Or the poor lieutenants, who are constantly getting asked how much rent they pay on their commodes? And I'm not even going to say anything about "corporal punishment"! I cannot tell you how much this rank indifference gets to me! "Rank indifference"? Oh, no, now I'm doing it too...

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God is dead. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. -God
Neitzsche is God. -Dead

[Dingle]

I work in at a job where we use computers for 90% of our work--

That being said, the most ingorant person I know is the guy I work with in accounts payable. He's late 30s, lives alone, very rigid and an all around odd person. He's pretty useless. I end up cleaning up after his mistakes. Anyway, he once said in a meeting that instead of having our A/P manual in MS Word, we should have a hard copy for people who can't use computers. DUH! There are many more, but that one took the cake!

[Dingle]

I know that wasn't the OP, but he does fall under the "Ignorant" category.

[threemae]

This, by no mean was intended to be a Christian bashing thread, the most arrogant/ignorant person I had ever known just happened to be a Christian being arrogant about a religious topic. I was not the one to bring the debate up, he was, and, he did not have anything to support his arguments after he made the original assertion intended to convert me and my other roommate. We all have beliefs that we can hang on to with out supporting them or having to justify them to others, just do not begin literally mocking me for being one of those, in his words, "stupid evolutionists." If you are going to call me stupid for being an evolutionist, do not call it persecution if I defend my views and criticize your own. I realize that all Christians are also not on single minded crusades to convert others, I did not even realize that the most observant religious person I know was LDS (Mormon) until it came up in a class discussion on theology and when she declined an event because it was on a Sunday.

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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

[Boris B]

I don't who the most arrogant, ignorant person I've ever known is. The one I've known most recently is not a Christian! I just thought I'd point that out since maybe we need a change of pace?

He's actually a Marxist, more-or-less. Smoker, self-described vegan who likes milkshakes. Are you getting the idea yet? Claimed that there was no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. I don't know why he thought that; I gathered that, as long as the mass media thought something was happening, he thought it must not be happening. So he was too cynical to believe people were murdering each other over ethnicity?

Well, the problem wasn't really cynicism. It was that he really liked Noam Chomsky but he didn't really have the brainpower to deal with it. Chomsky said the media might not always be right, thus, since Chomsky is always right, the media are always wrong!

I told him I did not think the media were a monolithic entity, all composed of people with the same opinion. He said, it was because I didn't listen to enough alternative media. How can there be alternative media if the media is a monolithic entity? I don't think he knows what "monolithic" means. Chomsky probably forgot to put that in the glossary.

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Nothing I write about any person or group should be applied to a larger group.
- Boris Badenov

[Scarred]

I had a long treatise about my next-door neighbor all written out. But then I realized that just writing about it made me sick to my stomach. Let me just say he's a rich asshole in a middle-class area who continually fucks with other people's property and threatens you if you stand up to him. I keep hearing rumors about him moving, but it hasn't happened yet. We go house-hunting every time there's an "incident".

[Surgoshan]

The most arrogant ignorant people are all those pricks that read some stupid factoid in the paper or some propoganda leaflet and assume it's an actual fact and refuse to reconsider it and look at any other possible view point even though they're wrong GODAMMIT!

[Kyla]

>>"The most God damned arrogant/ignorant people I have ever know" [sic] - that wd be American college girls, I dare say<<

I find *this* statement to be ignorant and arrogant.

~Kyla
"American college girl"

[neuro-trash grrrl]

Oh, wow, Kyla, I completely missed that one. But I'm just an ignorant American college girl, so I guess you have to expect stuff like that from me.

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God is dead. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. -God
Neitzsche is God. -Dead

[Monty]

Coworker: "Here's a message for transmission."

Me: "Okay." (Then the message gets rejected by the computer program which checks and transmits if message passes muster) "Wait a second! The computer says you're message can't go because it has format errors. Didn't you run the format check?"

Coworker: "No."

Me: "Well, why the hell not?"

Coworker: "Every time I do that, the thing says there's a format error."

[Shirley Ujest]

My list is to vast ( or am I pedantic?) to bore you with here, so I shall narrow it down. AND to Christian bashing...

My sister in law is incredibly ignorant.

She believes that gays are that way because it is a choice. This is a woman/child/moron who whined for years ad nauseum about " I want a BAAAABY" and had problems ( all in her head. It was her husband that had the problem, not her.) and after shelling out a shit load of cash for IVF ( to inject the sperm into her egg, etc)she gets pregnant, GAINS a truckload of weight (60#+) annouces to everyone at her babyshower that 1) she will lose all the weight 2)and be skinnier than before pregnancy. 3) take this infant (8wks old) on a 3 wk extended backpacking trip of europe by train with 10 other people.4) Won't have any stretch marks. ( 6 months after the birth of her precious angel, sorry,but I cannot warm up to this kid, she's lost about 40 pounds (she says more, but her waistline looks likes Homer's.) and she most definately has stretch marks.)

But the caketopper to this cream puff of an airhead is that she whines about not being home to be with her baby ( Daycare is Mom In Law)and has the audacity to get really pissed at me when I say, "Well, I guess you paid all that money to get pregnant, go on a $7,500 vacation that you could have postponed ( Like Europe is going anywhere) but couldn't because.. , just to have someone else raise your BAAABY that you REAAAALY wanted."

Needless to say, I'm the bad cop in this picture with her EVEN THOUGH her Mom ( and Dad and anyone else with gray matter) agrees with me completely. The one bonus of all this is is that this little angel is the exact temperment of her selfish screaming crybaby getwhatIwantbythrowingtempertantrums momma and looks just like her when she lets loose.(And she lets loose ALOT.) The child is referred to as " Little Donna" and boy, Momma gets pissed. Heh. Revenge is so sweet.

[Shirley Ujest]

Oh, and she tried to preach to me too about Christianity and this makes her all the more annoying.

Her husband, I like. If only she would be kidnapped by aliens.

[Shirley Ujest]

Since this is the Pit and I'm rarely here and I've been up since 3am ( insomnia) you all get the brunt of my daily ramblings.

I have to add my old boss :Debbie (AKA the paste faced condescending she bitch from hell.) She bragged about how she Lived in Grosse Pointe . ( For those are fortunate to live elsewhere, there are two really rich sections in the metro Detroit Area. Grosse Pointe ( old money) and Bloomfield Hills ( new money). She bragged about her house and la-de-la-de-da. This is a woman who drove a shitty car that looked like hell and she wore the same (stained)clothing EVERY day, so when she bragged about the house, we pretty much figured she was full of shit.

Then one day I have to go to her house for something. It was in a nice, quaint 70 year old neighborhood with huge trees and Martha Stewart like atmosphere everywhere. Debbie's house was the crappiest one on the block. Needed new paint,lawn and bushes were shabby, the windows were probably the original and the detached two car garage was leaning way too much to one direction to be safe. Clearly they bought it in this condition and after 6 years had let it deteriotate even more. The inside was filthy and worn.she did have nice artwork, though.

After her divorce ( From an equally condescending prick) she tried to sell the house and since I sat by the fax, I got to see the real estate paperwork that came in for her. When I saw how much her house was worth I just burst out laughing and couldn't stop. My Coworkers (including her sister who hated her) asked me what it was that was so funny. Irony, I said, and told them how much the bitches house was worth, to recieve blank looks, I continued on: " Well, it seems that her GROSSE POINTE house is worth abut $30,000 less than my house and mine is brand new, more modest in design and smaller." Then that day in the real estate section of the paper it said there was a "New" Grosse Pointe/Bloomfield Hills to look out for....and wouldn't you know it...it was/is my little out-in-the-sticks township. Heh and double heh! I taped that to her Highnesses computer and that shut her up about her prestigious house and location forevermore. ( I know, this could qualify me for the most arrogant person award, but I made a third less than she did and was liked by my peers, so it's justified.)

(She did get her just desserts. She decided to rent out her place and move back in with her parents -at age 45 with her 7 year old son- and the guy who rented from her stiffed her on the rent and wrote a shit load of backchecks of which she never collected a dime because she was too lazy to follow up. She had never done a background check on him because he had all the right connections and worked at a prestigious job and said all the buzzwordsand name dropping that her ego needed to here to hear.

I hope she is kidnapped by aliens tooo.

[Sake Samurai]

Most arrogant: That "Son of God" guy. What a complex he had. I think that cross thing taught 'em a lesson though - Karma, anyone?

Most ignorant: Any atheist who attacks someone's religion.

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Hell is Other People.

[Yankee Blue]

Has to be my recently [thank God!!!] transferred boss. Arrogant ignorant bastard who was appointed to a place of education - without earning the position I might add it was politics - and tried to turn it into his personal fiefdom with all employees working for his agrandizement. Education programs suffered, withered, and died under his regime. Moral plunged to the point that when the man became ill it was regarded as good news. The man was absolutely responsible for fucking over what was once a jewel of a work place and a place highly regarded by the community. He's been gon now for three weeks and only now is everybody letting out the sigh they've been holding for so long. Hope the new guy is better, BTA he could hardly be worse.

An aside: so what's up Durnovarianus, got yourself shot down by a Yankee girl for being a schmuck?

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~If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.~

[Monty]

Most arrogant: those who post complaints about a job in the field of education; however, the post has numerous spelling errors. ;) [Just a litte levity, relax!]

[Satan]

New Nominee:

The legal department at The Chicago Reader.

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Yer pal,
Satan

[Lynn Bodoni]

{{Most ignorant: Any atheist who attacks someone's religion.}}

Most ignorant: Anyone who assumes that atheists know nothing about religion.

Very close second: Anyone who assumes that an atheist will convert to Christianity if s/he will only read the Christian Bible.


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Lynn the Packrat

[Kyla]

Lynn, you forgot to mention Mormons who think that you would convert, if only you would read their book. (FTR, I *have* read big hunks of the BoM, and in my biased opinion, it's utter gibberish. However, lest someone accuse me of being arrogant or ignorant, I'd like to point out that I would never argue theology with a Mormon. Their religion is their business.)

I got into a huge debate with this guy in Israel about evolution. ARGH! I really didn't want to have an argument (it was at my friend's engagement party), but this guy just would not SHUT UP, and kept pulling all these ridiculous analogies out of his ass. This is what I get for telling people that I'm an anthropology major, I guess.

~Kyla

[Monty]

Kyla: you forgot to include damn near every other religion/sect/group/cult with followers who believe that someone would convert if they just read their book.

FTR: not every Christian, not every LDS, not every Muslim, not every Jew, not every...not every...not ever...believes that conversion is just a matter of reading the particular book in question.

An aside: so what's up Durnovarianus, got yourself shot down by a Yankee girl for being a schmuck?

I don't think I specified "Yankee" - I was trying to be offensive to Southerners too...

What I had in mind, since you ask, was primarily the behaviour of American tourists in London - it's a busy place, and in the rush-hour not far behind Tokyo for sheer compression and quantities of people, not helped by the appalling public transport system - and guess who it is, right in the middle of the rush-hour, who always blocks the only passageway or stands four abreast on the escalator gangway, or drops their enormous great suitcase right in front of the Tube door - yes, it's US college girls. And will they move or pay any attention at all if any-one says anything to them - will they buggery. (The boys BTW aren't nearly so bad, unless there are girls with them).

That is my reason, plus the fact that if you're stuck behind a group of the [insert obscene and insulting word of choice here] on the escalator, you can't avoid overhearing their dreary conversations - dumb, Dumb or DUMB? (I've translated from the English "thick" in view of the probable limitations of this audience...)

BTW, why are most of you so fat?

I do hope that clarifies the matter for you.

[Yankee Blue]

**laughing uproariously** omigod, you ARE a schmuck **wipes eyes** I was just poking a bit of fun, but you jumped on with both feet, didn't you? **hee hee hee** going for the cheap shot to get a rise, too **shakes head** just too funny...

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~If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.~

[sly]

Shirley Ujest:Then that day in the real estate section of the paper it said there was a "New" Grosse Pointe/Bloomfield Hills to look out for....and wouldn't you know it...it was/is my little out-in-the-sticks township.

I'm guessing Commerce, Plymouth or South Lyon?

[tomndebb]

Probably farther north, sly. I'm pretty sure that the elite are moving North while the upper middle class moves West. (Not that there aren't a lot of u/m/c moving North, as well.)

My folks stayed just ahead of the u/m/c trend for a while, moving to Avon Township in the mid-fifties but escaping before it became Rochester Hills. Unfortunately, they landed in Orion township and, after Dad died, Mom never got her feet under her to escape. (Of course, I'm really going to cry when she sells that $36,000 house for $300,000+.)

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[tomndebb]

Just to stay on topic, of course: the twits who moved into my Mom's neighborhood (after the neighborhood had worked years to establish a solid financial foundation to maintain the nearby lake) and declared that they thought it was simply dreadful that they had to pay anything for lake maintenance when they never used it--except for their annual "show off where I live" office parties or the very high resale values of their houses, of course.

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YB

Glad you found it funny, but it is simply the truth - American tourists, esp groups of teenage girls, behave on balance far worse than other tourists. And, again on average, young Americans are noticeably fatter than most other people of the comparable age group. But if you think it sth to be proud of, get on with it, by all means.

[Monty]

Pretend the "its" above is rendered "it's" and you'll have a correct spelling there.

[Kyla]

>>FTR: not every Christian, not every LDS, not every Muslim, not every Jew, not every...not every...not ever...believes that conversion is just a matter of reading the particular book in question.<<

Monty, just to be nitpicky, let me point out that Judaism actively *discourages* conversion. But you're right, most people know that there is more than just reading the book. I've just had that enjoyable experience of having LDS tell me that I should read the book, cause I'd *know* it was true!

I hope I don't offend anyone, because I really don't mean offense.

~Kyla

[Max Torque]

On the subject of religious books: my friends and I used to read from the Book of Mormon aloud to each other. That is one funny book.

40+ sentences in a row that began with, "And it came to pass...." hehehe....

[Monty]

Thanks, Max; now I know I'm going straight to hell! I'm imagining a game of "and it came to pass" along the lines of the 1970s drinking game "Bob." Y'all remember that one, right? Watch an episode of The Bob Newhart Show and every time someone in the show says "Bob" you down a beer.

[Monty]

Durno: this actually amused me, as its posted by some Brit above (and "we all know how the English are"):

will they buggery. (The boys BTW aren't nearly so bad, unless there are girls with them).

[capybara]

About foolish american girls/ American tourists being the worst. You know, I used to think that might be possible, but this summer in Amsterdam changed all that. I saw many Americans, and most were fairly well behaved, but Boy oh Boy! Groups of English laddies (many over, say, 40) over with their mates for the weekend to watch the football match! Jesus Christ! I have never witnessed a ruder, louder, more puking-at-their-own-table-and-ordering-another-beer bunch of people in my life.
Coldfire-- have you witnessed this?